Dear All,
Thank you for your responses to my question about how students used INFORMS tutorials as part of teaching sessions. We at Leicester found people getting terribly confused and lost trying to use these online tutorials, and I wondered if that was anyone else's experience.
I had two other libraries reporting very similar things. I also had people reporting similar things with other resources, including worksheets, and had the suggestions that students don't follow sequential instructions and that they skip over text until they find something they are being asked to do. Colleagues have suggested:
- Demonstrating the first few steps of the tutorial;
- Not giving out any separate exercises or questions until after the INFORMS has been completed;
- Getting students to do the INFORMS tutorial in pairs;
- Stressing that students need to stick to the examples in the tutorial.
I am looking at changing the wording of the instructions within new INFORMS tutorials that I am writing, to emphasise how they work and the fact that they are self contained.
It was useful to know that others have found the same thing as us. It was also interesting to be reminded that this might be something that you can see with other teaching materials.
Thanks again,
Keith
Keith Nockels
Information Librarian
Clinical Sciences Library
University of Leicester
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